Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-29
unsuccessfully tried to cut his throat with .

unsuccessfully tried to cut his throat with
knife.
| A Nashville dispatch says John J. Little
ton who was shot by Joseph X. Banks Ia,
Saturday, died "Wednesday morning. Grea
hopes were entertained for his recovery unit
Tuesday evening when he began to sim
gradually.
The following Maine postmasters wer
appointed Wednesday: Charles f. Getchell
East Winn, Penobscot county, vice Samue
N. Merrill, removed; Jas. c. Fuller, Nortl
Appleton, Knox county, vice Jas. A. Merser
vey, resigned.
The State convention of the prohibitions
party held in Topeka, Kan, on Tuesday
was attended by prohibitionists from all part
of the State. 1t was decided to begin Wig
orous campaign during the coming year, an.
put full State ticket in the field.
Benson Sewall only son of Prof. Sewall O
the Bangor Theological Seminary wa
drowned Wednesday morning while skating
ON the Penobscot at Hampden. He was ,
young man of much promise. a graduate o.
Bowdoin and student at the Seminary.
The London Times referring to the snow
balling of Gladstone on Tuesday, says that il
was discreditable act, though Gladstonians
set the example by their doings at unionists
meetings. The position and age of Glad.
stone." says the Times "ought to insure him
against such insults"
Wednesday morning Mr.. Charles II. Thorpe
an elderly citizen of Deering was knocked
down by runaway horse aid quite badly
hurt. He was taken to Schlotterbeck 4
Goss' drug store and recovered sufficiently
in about an hour to be conveyed to his home
Ii is thought he was not injured internally.
A postofiice has been established at Mus
congas, Lincoln county, and Alonzo .. But
Ter appointed postmaster. The postoffice at
South Danville, Androscoggin county, was
discontinued, Wednesday. The name of the
post-ofice at East Benten, Kennehec county
was changed Wednesday to Preston Corner.
Miss Phoebe Cousins, of ST. Louis, has an
nounced that she will be an independent pro-
hibition candidate for governor in the coming
Miss Cousins recently vacated
the Office of marshal Of the eastern district
of Missouri, which she successfully man.
aged for several months after the death of
her father.
The following Maine pensions were grant
ed, Wednesday: Originals, Benjamin Davis,
South Portland; increase, Warren Jones,
Unity Leonard Briggs, South Paris; James
X. Reynolds, Hallowell; David Palmer,
Dexter; Henry II. Follett Lambert Lake;
Ebenezer ID. Harlow, South Robinston;
Frances f. Hayes, West Paris; restoration
and reissue, George Hathorn, North Lincoln
j. c. Wallor, his wife and two children
who went from Burlington, VT, to the Congo
country to take part in Bishop Taylor's self
missionary school, have returned.
Wallor describes the enterprise as complete
failure and thinks he was lucky to escape
,live. He says there is no chance for mis-
'ionary work as the struggle for existence
occupies all the time of the unfortunate men,
oers of the colony.
The co-partnership heretofore existing be-
ween William Common !: lanes Anderson and
William Burley, doing business under the
name of the Railway Granite Company, at
Rockland, was dissolved Friday. On Jan
lary lst, a new company consisting of VIM.
Burley and Charles II. Hall of that city, will
continue the business under the same name.
they will open new quarries and establish
)tfices in the West.
A Key West dispatch says 1t now trans
pires that the yacht Maria of New York,
which sailed Saturday, ostensibly in search
)f hidden treasure off the Honduras coast,
may have other objects in view. A private
etter from New York conveys the impress
sion that the yacht was loaded with guns and
consigned to revolutionary forces
n Honduras, and fitted out at the expense of
De Soto, ex-president of the republic in New
York.
The annual meeting of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural society was held at Man
chester, Wednesday. The old board of Off
GERS was reelected with the addition of
Thomas b. Page and F. =. johnson Of Man
Col. X. Pillsbury of Derry and NJ.
j. Colby of Dunbarton, to the board of di-
rectors. The society voted to extend an
invitation to the New England society to
unite with it in fair in New Hampshire,
provided the latter did not conclude to have
IN exhibition at Worcester next fall.
Tuesday afternoon Game Warden Allen
seized from a freight car on the Maine Cen
trail railroad in Bangor, on the train which
had just arrived from Aroostook, the hind
quarters of eight and the fore-quarters of six
caribou, which were IN possession and being
contrary to law, which does not
allow any person to kill or have in posses
sion more than one moose, two caribou or
three deer, during a season. The caribou
were consigned to dealer in Bangor, and
the party sending them must either have
been very ignorant or willing himself to take
heavy chances and also to expect another
man to take big odds in trying to dispose of
eight caribou during the four days of open
time remaining. There was over half a ton
Of the game.